Google Maps Photos Scraper

❓ What does it do?

This Google Maps Photos scraper lets you collect links for photos for a place on Google Maps. You can get photos by category (e.g. menu, ambience, rooms) or get photos without categories. The current build returns a small set of photo URLs from the place page, not the full gallery.

To save bandwidth and reduce usage costs (especially if using a proxy), the photos will not be downloaded - only a link will be supplied.

💾 What data can users scrape from Google Maps?

You can scrape photo links for a place in Google Maps. This includes photos from the owner and photos attached to reviews when they appear on the place page.

🏭 Example Output

Here's an example of Google Maps data that users might get when they scrape Google Maps reviews for Sydney Opera House:

{
  "name": "The Plaza",
  "photoURLs": [
    {
        "tag": "document",
        "url": "https://photodomain.com/hjkdfshkjfHSAH"
    },
    {
        "tag": "document",
        "url": "https://photodomain.com/wqesauofdsjJKL"
    },
],
  "count": 6
}

📝 Input format

You can configure the input options to get exactly the results you want:

• 🎯 Targets
  • 🔗 Place URLs
  • 🆔 Place IDs
  • 💾 Dataset ID
• 📸 Max photos per place
• 🗂️ Max photos per category
• 🚫 Ignored categories

The current build uses max photos per place as a cap. Max photos per category and ignored categories are kept for compatibility and are not applied.

Each of these options is explained further below:

• 🎯 Targets
  • You can use a sharing URL for a place or use its Place ID to scrape reviews. You can supply a list of URLs and Place IDs at the same time and you will get results for all of them.
  • If you are using the the Advanced Google Maps Scraping Manager to find places to scrape, use the integrations tab in the manager actor to trigger this scraper automatically when places are found
• 👩‍👧‍👦 Max reviews per place
  • How many reviews to get before stopping. The scraping will take longer to complete the higher this is set.
• 📸 Max photos per place
  • The maximum total number of photo URLs to collect
  • This number will be divided across the categories, so photos from all categories are collected
  • The actual number of photo URLs in the result may be lower than max photos:
    • if the total number of photos for the place is lower than max photos
    • or, if some categories have fewer than max photos divided by max categories, e.g. if max photos is 100 and there are 5 categories, max photos per category is 20, but if one of the categories has only 5 photos, only 85 photos in total would be collected
• 🗂️ Max photos per category
  • can be specified if you do not want it to be automatically calculated
• 🚫 Ignored categories
  • Any categories you do not want to collect photos from

🙋‍♀️ FAQs

Q: Can the data be exported in different formats?
A: Yes, the scraped data can be downloaded in formats such as JSON or CSV for analysis.

Q: Is it legal to scrape Google Maps reviews?
A: You should consult the Terms of Service for Google Maps to determine if your use case is permitted.

Q: Can I input a location and search term to find places to scrape? A: Yes, using the Advanced Google Maps Scraping Manager. This photos scraper can be chained so it runs automatically when the manager finds places that match your search.